Monkey Punch Net Worth
Monkey Punch Net Worth is
$1.2 Million
Monkey Punch Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Monkey Punch (????????, Monk? Panchi) is the pen name of Japanese manga artist Kazuhiko Kat? (????, Kat? Kazuhiko, born May 26, 1937), best known for his series Lupin III. In April 2005 he became the professor of Manga Animation at Otemae University, in their Faculty of Media and Arts, and was a visiting professor at Tokyo University of Technology in May 2010. He was born in Hamanaka, Hokkaid? and currently resides in Sakura, Chiba. | Date Of Birth | May 26, 1937 |
| Place Of Birth | Hamanaka, Hokkaido, Japan |
| Profession | Writer, Director, Actor |
| Star Sign | Gemini |
| # | Trademark |
|---|---|
| 1 | His female protagnogists are depicted as attractive women with long flowing hair and a large bust. |
| 2 | His male protagonists usually bear a long chin. |
| 3 | Many of his stories often feature at least one character skilled with a gun. |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | When Lupin goes abroad, overseas, you never really see him have a passport. There are no boundaries for him, he's a free roamer. I'm drawing him as a character, where he can go wherever he wants whenever he wants without any obstacles. And that's the appeal for me. |
| 2 | About Arsene Lupin III: Everything about him kind of appeals to me. Actually, I kind of project my desires, my interests through Lupin. He's a thief and a criminal in that regard, but I'm using that as more of a setting. What I really like about Lupin is his freedom, his boundless freedom that allows him to do whatever he wants whenever he wants and never really be tied down to anything or anyone in particular. I think I want that for myself in my own work when I do my own jobs, so for that reason, Lupin is by far the character I most relate to. |
| 3 | About Inspector Koichi Zenigata: Even though I relate to Lupin the most, I really, really like Zenigata. Zenigata is Lupin's fiercest opponent; his personality, his ultra-strict, ultra-rigid, "protect every rule" personality, in a sense is something that also really appeals to me. I really like how the contrast comes out between Lupin and Zenigata in my work. That whole combination of things really, to me as a manga artist, is what I strive for. |
| 4 | About other mangas: I guess you could perhaps say that it's my curiosity, but wherever there's a crowd gathering, anywhere there's a group of people bustling about something, I always tend to stick my neck in and say, "Hey, what's going on?" I'm really curious about things like that. And I also enjoy looking at creations other than my own to use in my own study for my own works. |
| 5 | About Lupin III's success: When I started drawing Lupin [in 1967], I was really only supposed to draw him for three months. It was more of only a contract project. At the end of that three months, it became popular and I continued drawing it for ten years. And over that time, I never expected that I'd be invited to America multiple times, to attend these conventions, have so many fans and people that have read my works and have come to talk to me and express their gratitude. It's really an amazing feeling and at the same time it's bizarre in a way. I don't understand the popularity. I'm happy for it, but I don't understand it. |
| 6 | If I was to give some advice, I would have to say there are a lot of good artists today. But, at the same time my art isn't necessarily the best art there is. I would say "Don't concentrate just on drawing." It is probably more important is that is to have a story that fits well with modern times, with your day, and to keep that in mind when you draw your work. Also, don't over-concentrate on one thing, try to diversify. Learn a little about many different things, it'll probably help you more in the long run. |
| 7 | When I was younger and I started writing manga, we only had pen and paper. Today, there are all sorts of different mediums with which to express yourself creatively. Although it's important to continue to figure out ways to improve in your chosen medium, be it digital manga, be it traditional manga, I think it's more important still to keep your readers in mind, your audience in mind when you create your work. |
| 8 | Instead of writing about a heroic character, a good guy, I really enjoy writing about bad guys so much more. |
| 9 | I'll draw manga until I die! It may not be on paper, it may be on the computer. I've actually gone back to university studying digital art, digital computers further to hopefully further myself and hopefully further a movement in Japan for digital manga. I will continue writing until I die. |
| 10 | About Hayao Miyazaki's Rupan sansei: Kariosutoro no shiro (1979): I really enjoy that work and I just like him and another famous manga artist in Japan, Testegawa-sama, their works, I enjoy them from a distance. I don't try to do it myself; I enjoy it from a distance. |
| 11 | Explaining the relationship of Arsene Lupin III and Fujiko Mine: I think of men and women in general as... rather than saying tease, say they enjoy each other. They use their attributes; Fujiko uses her beautiful body and sex appeal as a weapon and Lupin uses his cunning and wit as a weapon, and they like going at it with each other in a fun sense. Not necessarily lovers, not necessarily husband and wife, but more just having fun as man and woman with each other and using their weapons against each other, but in an enjoyable way. |
| 12 | About Rupan sansei: Dead or Alive (1996), which he directed: I really don't want to talk about this too much. Basically, it wasn't something I wanted to do on my own. I was approached to do it. We were on a real tight time-crunch; the movie was produced in five months and basically it was decided that this movie was going to be made and they didn't have a director, so I unwillingly accepted the role. However I feel it was the voice actors and the other people involved in the project that saved it. The one thing I learned from doing this is that, more than even myself drawing manga by myself, it took more than a thousand times the energy to produce and direct this movie. And I really don't want to do it again. |
| 13 | When a company approaches and asks to create an animation of my work, I really just want them to create something that is good. I'd like to leave the animating to the animators, the professionals. It's not my field of expertise and so when it comes down to it, I'm pretty much, well, "Make it good," and I leave it up to them. So, you know, the directors will go ahead and make their own Lupin and add a twist to their own Lupin character and I enjoy watching those. |
| 14 | I guess you could say that part of the appeal [of Lupin III] is that my works have been directed at the youth of the nation and of the world, the younger generation, so in a sense, I wasn't really ever restricted with political barriers. It was easy for me to continue writing and drawing in that sense because it was freedom. |
| 15 | There's a lot of Japanese humor that doesn't make it outside of the country and is not felt the same way. However, I think it's not just America, I think it's worldwide. I think there are a lot of different cultures that do affect how people interpret my work. But it's not something I really worry about too much. |
| 16 | About the Japanese Manga Artists Club: It wasn't really ever meant to be a club, it wasn't a group I formed to invite people in, it's more a couple of people I knew who were using Macs to do artwork and I gave them a call, and say, "Hey, want to get together for a little bit?" And before you knew it, it had 1500 members! |
| 17 | About the Digital Manga Group We're in the preparation stage, but this is a completely professional digital manga group I've brought together and hopefully we'll be able to create some fantastic things for everybody. And ultimately I'd like this to expand beyond the borders of Japan to other countries to other professional comic book artists that want to use the digital medium. I would love for them to come and join our group. Sony and various game companies have taken an interest in our group; they want to learn a lot more about us, so we're just now starting talks with them. So hopefully, this will be something big. |
| 18 | About his pseudonym: To be honest, I don't really like the name Monkey Punch, I never have. |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | Monkey Punch has said that he believes the "Lupin III" story can never end but that if it had to, both Zenigata and Lupin would have to end it as equals. They would either both fail, both win or both get very old. |
| 2 | Lupin III was voted in a 2009 poll by Mania.com as the 8th most iconic anime hero of all time. The same site voted Fujiko Mine as the 2nd most iconic anime heroine of all time, and Inspector Koichi Zenigata as the 8th greatest anime supporting character, as well as voting Zenigata the 9th greatest anime detective. |
| 3 | He formed the Digital Manga Group, a society of professional manga creators which includes Leiji Matsumoto, Gô Nagai, Buichi Terasawa, Tsukasa Hôjô and Sato Naka. |
| 4 | He formed the Japanese Manga Artists Club (J-Mac), a group of artists who specialize in digital manga. He originally hadn't planned on it becoming a king-size guild; he just called together a couple of digital artists to work on a project, and thanks to word of mouth the club had expended to about 1500 members. |
| 5 | He cites mystery/adventure writers Agatha Christie, Robert Louis Stevenson ("Treasure Island") and Alexandre Dumas père ("The Count of Monte Cristo", "The Three Musketeers"), the films of Alfred Hitchcock, the crime capers shows Mission: Impossible (1966) and Columbo (1971), and MAD Magazine artists Mort Drucker and Sergio Aragonés as an influence on his work. |
| 6 | His most famous manga, "Lupin III" made its debut in 1967, in the first issue of the Japanese magazine "Weekly Manga Action.". |
| 7 | He prefers Lupin III to wear a red jacket since he feels red is a flashy and sexy colour. Lupin has worn a red, green, pink and blue jacket throughout his animated history. |
| 8 | According to interviews, he is a fan of MAD Magazine. |
| 9 | The name "Monkey Punch" was not his idea, nor does he particularly like the name. It came about when his editor and publisher both noticed the somewhat Western-style drawing in his artwork, and decided, along with him, to create an name that would keep Japanese audiences guessing about his nationality. The name that the editor and publisher jointly came up with, much to his chagrin, was "Monkey Punch." |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zenigata keibu | TV Mini-Series characters - 1 episode, 2017 creator - 1 episode, 2017 post-production | ||
| Lupin the Third: The Blood Spray of Goemon Ishikawa | 2017 | creator post-production | |
| Lupin III: The Italian Game | 2016 | creator | |
| Lupin III | 2015 | TV Series creator | |
| Rupan sansei | 2014 | manga | |
| Lupin the IIIrd: Jigen Daisuke no Bohyo | 2014 | characters | |
| Rupan Sansei vs Meitantei Conan: The Movie | 2013 | manga | |
| Lupin III: Princess of the Breeze | 2013 | TV Movie manga | |
| Lupin the III: Another Page | 2012 | TV Movie manga | |
| Lupin the Third: Mine Fujiko to iu onna | 2012 | TV Series manga - 2 episodes | |
| Rupan Sansei: Rupan Ikka Seizeroi | 2012 | Short characters | |
| Lupin the III: Chi no kokuin - eien no mermaid | 2011 | TV Movie manga | |
| Rupan Sansei: Saishû jobu | 2010 | TV Movie creator | |
| Rupan Sansei vs Meitantei Conan | 2009 | TV Movie characters | |
| Rupan Sansei: Sweet lost night - Maho no lamp wa akumu no yokan | 2008 | TV Movie creator | |
| Lupin III: Green vs. Red | 2008 | Video creator | |
| Rupan sansei: Kiri no eryuushivu | 2007 | TV Movie creator | |
| Lupin | 2007 | TV Series comic | |
| Rupan sansei: Lupin niwa shi o, Zenigata niwa koi o | 2007 | Video Game creator / screenplay | |
| Rupan sansei: Sebundeizu rapusodei | 2006 | TV Movie creator / screenplay | |
| Gun-dou Musashi | 2006 | TV Series creator / screenplay | |
| Rupan sansei: Tenshi no sakuryaku takutikusu yume no kakera wa koroshi no kaori | 2005 | TV Movie creator | |
| Shuyaku wa Zenigata | 2005 | Video Game creator / screenplay | |
| Rupan sansei: Columbus no Isan wa Akenisomaru | 2004 | Video Game creator / screenplay | |
| Slotter up core 5 Rupan daisuki! Shuyaku wa Zenigata | 2004 | Video Game creator / screenplay | |
| Katsudou dai shashin: Mankatsu | 2004 | TV Series creator / screenplay | |
| Rupan sansei: Nusumareta rupan | 2004 | TV Movie creator / screenplay | |
| Rupan sansei: Otakara henkyaku dai-sakusen!! | 2003 | TV Movie creator / screenplay | |
| Rupan sansei: Umi ni kieta hihou | 2003 | Video Game creator / screenplay | |
| Cinderella Boy | 2003 | TV Series comic / idea | |
| Lupin the 3rd: Treasure of the Sorcerer King | 2002 | Video Game creator / screenplay | |
| Rupan Sansei: Episode 0 - Faasuto kontakuto | 2002 | TV Movie creator / screenplay | |
| Rupan sansei: Ikiteita majutsushi | 2002 | Video comic | |
| Rupan sansei: The Typing | 2002 | Video Game creator / screenplay | |
| Rupan sansei: Arukatorazu konnekushion | 2001 | TV Movie story | |
| Rupan sansei: The shooting | 2001 | Video Game creator / screenplay | |
| Shamu neko fuâsto misshon | 2001 | Video comic | |
| Lupin III: Missed by a Dollar | 2000 | TV Movie creator | |
| Parlor! PRO Jr. Vol. 2 | 1999 | Video Game characters | |
| Rupan Sansei: Ai no da capo - Fujiko's Unlucky Days | 1999 | TV Movie creator / screenplay | |
| Rupan sansei | 1998 | Video Game creator / screenplay | |
| Rupan sansei: Sage of the pyramid | 1998 | Video Game creator / screenplay | |
| Lupin III: Burning Memory - Tokyo Crisis | 1998 | creator / screenplay | |
| Rupan sansei: Chronicles | 1997 | Video Game creator / screenplay | |
| Lupin III: Island of Assassins | 1997 | TV Movie comic | |
| Rupan sansei: Chateau de Cagliostro Saikai | 1997 | Video Game creator / screenplay | |
| Lupin the Third: The Legend of Twilight Gemini | 1996 | TV Movie characters | |
| Rupan sansei: Dead or Alive | 1996 | creator / screenplay | |
| Rupan sansei: The master file | 1996 | Video Game creator / screenplay | |
| Lupin III: The Pursuit of Harimao's Treasure | 1995 | TV Movie creator / screenplay | |
| Lupin III: Farewell to Nostradamus | 1995 | creator / screenplay | |
| Rupan sansei: Densetsu no hihou o oe! | 1994 | Video Game creator / screenplay | |
| Lupin the Third: Dragon of Doom | 1994 | TV Movie creator / screenplay | |
| Lupin III: Voyage to Danger | 1993 | TV Movie creator / screenplay | |
| Lupin the 3rd: From Siberia with Love | 1992 | TV Movie comic | |
| Monkey Punch no Sekai: Alice | 1991 | Video original story | |
| Lupin the 3rd: Napoleon's Dictionary | 1991 | TV Movie creator / screenplay | |
| Lupin the 3rd: The Hemingway Papers | 1990 | TV Movie creator | |
| Lupin the Third Bye Bye, Lady Liberty | 1989 | TV Movie creator | |
| SD Rupan sansei: Kinko yaburi daisakusen | 1989 | Video Game creator / screenplay | |
| Rupan sansei: Fûma ichizoku no inbô | 1987 | comic | |
| Anime san jushi | 1987 | TV Series adaptation | |
| Rupan sansei: Pandora no isan | 1987 | Video Game creator / screenplay | |
| Rupan sansei: Babiron no Ôgon densetsu | 1985 | creator / screenplay | |
| Rupan sansei: Part III | 1984 | TV Series comic | |
| Lupin the 3rd | 1977-1980 | TV Series creator - 155 episodes | |
| Lupin III | 1980 | Video Game characters / manga by | |
| Rupan sansei: Kariosutoro no shiro | 1979 | graphic novel series | |
| Rupan sansei | 1978 | comic | |
| Rupan Sansei: Nenriki chin sakusen | 1974 | manga | |
| Rupan sansei | 1971 | TV Series comic | |
| Rupan sansei: Pilot Film | 1969 | TV Short comic |
Director
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rupan sansei: Dead or Alive | 1996 | ||
| Scoopers | 1987 |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hoshikuzu kyôdai no densetsu | 1985 | Visitor of Gay bar |
Animation Department
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scoopers | 1987 | character designer |
Soundtrack
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rupan sansei | 1978 | lyrics: "Rupan Ondo" 1978 |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Achievement Award | Tokyo Anime Award | Original Author |
Known for movies
Rupan sansei: Kariosutoro no shiro (1979)
as Writer
Lupin the 3rd (1977-1980)
as Writer
Rupan sansei: Babiron no Ôgon densetsu (1985)
as Writer
Lupin III: Farewell to Nostradamus (1995)
as Writer